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Dance show
Mar. 15th, 2013 08:04 amTook the girls to a university dance exhibition last night. For some reason I thought it was going to be all ballroom, but instead it was more of a showcase of all the kinds of dance they do. They linked it with an art theme, so that the dances represented various paintings, or vice versa. They hung original paintings of the dancers plus famous art prints around the auditorium to look at before and after the show. They did Dali's Persistence of Memory (the melting clocks) with a funny interpretive dance of a bunch of sleepers who could not get out of bed and who did not want their alarm clocks. They did a strange one of Magritte's painting of the man with an apple for a face. They did some "regular" dances, too--ballet (for Degas) and some salsa, swing, waltz, etc. (Including the funny Waltz of the Wallflowers). The most [intentionally] disturbing one was about body image. They pushed it to the point where you as audience wanted them to stop hating themselves for not being thin, to the point where it was painful to watch, before a couple of the dancers finally fought back. That one went over my girls' heads, but hey, if they don't have body image issues, let's keep it that way, right?
Ironically, I brought my sketch book to entertain myself while waiting for it to start, but since it was an art theme, anyway, I ended up trying to capture some of the dances on the page. Hard, but at least I think I know what kinds of things I need to learn to be able to do that.
The one thing I couldn't help but reflect on was that all of these dancers probably started when they were three or four. I'm SURE it wasn't something they just picked up in college. Like the high school Beauty and the Beast production a while back, these people have been dancing for years. I'm sure that probably half the audience last night also had significant dance experience of some kind or another. Which made me realize that I definitely did not grow up in Dance Corridor! I come from the Bible Belt, where yes, there were school dances, but there are still some Baptists, etc. who are not exactly overly fond of dancing. Ah, well. Someone needs to be the audience, right? :)
Ironically, I brought my sketch book to entertain myself while waiting for it to start, but since it was an art theme, anyway, I ended up trying to capture some of the dances on the page. Hard, but at least I think I know what kinds of things I need to learn to be able to do that.
The one thing I couldn't help but reflect on was that all of these dancers probably started when they were three or four. I'm SURE it wasn't something they just picked up in college. Like the high school Beauty and the Beast production a while back, these people have been dancing for years. I'm sure that probably half the audience last night also had significant dance experience of some kind or another. Which made me realize that I definitely did not grow up in Dance Corridor! I come from the Bible Belt, where yes, there were school dances, but there are still some Baptists, etc. who are not exactly overly fond of dancing. Ah, well. Someone needs to be the audience, right? :)
